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Learning About the World through Modeling
Living Language
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Saints and Heroes (2nd Grade)
Animal Legends (2nd Grade)
Old Testament Stories (3rd Grade Curriculum)
4th Grade Mathematics
Human Being and Animal World (4th Grade Curriculum)
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
Earth, Water, Fire and Air
5th Grade Mathematics
Ancient Mythology (5th Grade Curriculum)
Botany
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Waldorf Homeschooling in the Lower Grades (1-5)

Drawing with your Four to Eleven Year Old

Drawing
with your
Four to Eleven Year Old

A basic guide to Waldorf methods of drawing – includes 7 full color pages.

37 pages, $22

Click here for more details and to view sample pages.

Form Drawing
for Beginners

Fully-illustrated step-by-step instructions for beginning form drawing.

41 pages, $22

See here for more information

Form Drawing for Beginners

Living Language - a Language Arts Curriculum

Living Language:
A Language Arts Curriculum
Vol. 1: Grades 1-5

A comprehensive and detailed curriculum for Grades 1 - 5. In-depth teaching advice, lesson plans and strategies for children of differing abilities in writing, reading, grammar, handwriting and spelling.

300 pages, $105.00

More details including sample pages here

Joyful Movement
A Resource for Nurturing Balance, Movement and the Senses

A treasure trove of ideas and activities, songs and movement games

100+ pages, $25

Click here for more details and to view sample pages.

Joyful Movement

Learning About the World
Through Modeling

(AWSNA Publications)

An unbelievably rich resource for first grade through high school: highly recommended! Click here for more details.

230 pages, $24


For help choosing books, see our Publications Age Guide

Further information about
The Christopherus Curriculum
 
  

Second Grade Mathematics

Second Grade Curriculum
Mathematics

A full year of main lesson, practice lesson and Circle Time math for second grade. Includes painting lessons and full color pictures. More information and excerpts here.

60 pages, $35

Animal Legends
(a 2nd Grade Language Arts block)

Everything you need to put together an animal legends main lesson. Includes full color pictures. More information and excerpts here.

40 pages, $22

Animal Legends - A Second Grade Language Arts Block

Third Grade Curriculum

Old Testament Stories:
Manual & Storybook

The manual contains 24 pages of text (including a short play, Joseph and His Brothers) plus full-page pictures, including 10 full-color reproductions of watercolor paintings. More information and excerpts here

$35.00

Saints and Heroes
(a 2nd Grade Language Arts block)

All you need to put together a Saints and Heroes Main Lesson block

50 pages, $22

Click here for more details and to view sample pages.

Saints and Heroes - a Second Grade Language Arts Block


Measurement component available in either American or Metric

Fourth Grade Curriculum

Mathematics

A complete math curriculum for 4th grade. 67 pages + 45 tear-out worksheets + Key to Measurement workbooks  1 & 2 + Key to Fractions workbooks 1 & 2. More information and excerpts here

$50.00

The Human Being and the Animal World

In-depth guidance and lesson plans to put together two 4th grade main lesson blocks,
More information and excerpts here

57 pages, $25     

The Human Being and the Animal World by Donna Simmons


 

Fifth Grade
Mathematics

The arithmetic component of our 5th grade curriculum comprises a Christopherus guide ($15) to be used in conjunction with the Key To workbooks specified.
More information here

Botany

Material for you to use to put together a botany block or an extended study of this subject. Includes 6 full-page illustrations (5 color).

38 pages, $17

Click here for more information

  

Botany (Christopherus Unit Studies: Main Lessons for Homeschoolers)

Ancient Mythology: India, Persia, Babylon and Egypt by Donna Simmons

Ancient Mythology:
India, Persia, Babylon and Egypt

In-depth guidance, lesson plans and stories for a 6-week main lesson.

Purchase our Ancient Mythology bundle or separate components: more information here

The Selfish Giant
by Oscar Wilde
- An Easter Play for Homeschoolers -

Adapted by Donna Simmons from the wonderful short story by Oscar Wilde with notes on how to create the right mood for such a play and music suggestions.

20 pages, $7.00

The Selfish Giant - an Easter Play for Homeschoolers

The Bremen Town Musicians - A Short Play for Homeschoolers

The Bremen Town Musicians
- A Short Play for Homeschoolers -

A short play adapted from the Grimms fairy tale with additional notes on the Waldorf approach to drama.

19 pages, $7.00

The Magic of Patience: A Jataka Tale
- A Short Play Using the Four Temperaments -

A very short play with four parts - for elementary school-age children. With an introduction to the pedagogical use of the four temperaments.

12 pages, $5.50

The Magic of Patience: A Jataka Tale

 

         

 

Customers who wish to mail their order to us should send a check or money order in US$ made out to Christopherus Homeschool Resources to the following address:

Christopherus Homeschool Resources
P.O. Box 231
Viroqua, WI 54665

Wisconsin residents should add 5.5% sales tax to the cost of their books.

 

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  • International orders valued up to $25:  $9 S&H

  • International orders valued between $25 and $50:  $14 S&H

  • International order valued over $50:  $20 S&H

Audio Downloads: these are downloaded directly to your computer and naturally there is no shipping and handling charge!

Returns Policy

If you receive your books and decide that one or more of them was a mistaken purchase, please contact us within 7 days to arrange to return your unwanted purchase. Obviously, any book will need to be returned in the condition in which you received it and we will fully refund the cost of the book but not the shipping and handling charge. We regret that we are unable to accept returns from customers outside of North America.
 

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